Illinois Kimberly Lightford, D-Weschester, speaks in support of introducing an education funding reform bill that would put almost all state education funding into one pot and then require districts to demonstrate need before receiving part of it, a significant shift from the current method, which factors in a district's poverty for some types of state aid, but not others, during a news conference at the Illinois State Capitol Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)
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